mintyRN

Hi, I've been on a vent case for a little over a year. I absolutely love it. I lucked out and got a sweet little girl with a wonderful supportive family. Some aren't so fortunate. I plan to stick with this for a while. It was a welcome change fr...

Hope you feel better soon. We nurses are the absolute worst when it comes to going to the doc! We don't like to admit that we get sick too! A few yrs ago I ended up with pneumonia after a long nasty bout with the flu. I felt so crappy, didn't wan...

Good for you! Too often we just put up with their BS. Sounds like you put him in his place. You go girl!

I feel for you!!! I am on Thanksgiving night (no big deal) Christmas night and New Years Eve. I requested Christmas eve off and I did get that so I'm not gonna whine. Maybe you and your family can have a special day together on the 26th?

I love my job. I do pediatric private duty. I can't believe I get paid for what I do. It is low stress and high reward. It might be too dull for the adrenaline junkies, but it works for me.

I worked in a womens max security prison for a year. It was the hardest year of my life! Very sad cases. I am a softie and it was very difficult for me to adjust to the mentality of nursing inmates. You cannot take what they say to be true, you m...

Fear of attachment kept me away from peds for years. Then a peds job simply landed in my lap. I now do private duty for an agency that works with vent dependent children. Yes I am attached to my pt, and if she died I would be devastated. However,...

I graduated in 93 with a BSN. Couldn't find a job anywhere in the burgh! I continued to work as a CNA for a few months and moved down south where I got a job right away. As far as encouraging my daughter, she tells me she wants to be a nurse like ...

I have learned my lesson the hard way it is best to call in when sick. One time I went in to work with food poisoning. Big mistake. I was only nurse scheduled that day (acute dialysis ) and I ended up working 14 hrs and puked every hr. Couldn't e...

Just wanted to add one thing. Make sure you have up to date scripts for those meds. If you do test positive you'll need proof that you were taking them under a doc's care.

Sandra Took, Effexor is also being used for chronic back pain. My grandmother is currently taking it along with oxycontin for back pain. Right now it is too soon to tell, but we are hopeful.

I say follow your gut. We nurses have very good intuition. Make the call and leave it to protective services to decide whether or not the children are in danger.

You have every right to be mad and file a complaint. Why is it that some nurses act so unprofessional? My gran is in the hosp right now and I was shocked at the things I saw and heard just on her floor. Hearing the "F" word more than once, definit...

One can be a good nurse without "caring deeply" for the pt. My experience in corrections showed me that. I had to provide care to child abusers, molesters, and murderers. Did I like these people? NO. I did provide them with the best possible nur...

The most fulfilling experience for me as a nurse has been the opportunity to care for my grandmother in her own home. She devoted her life to me when my mother died, and I feel honored to be taking care of her now. It's the little day to day things...

I also have attended several funerals of patients. I worked in dialysis at the time and I spent many hours with these patients a week. It was impossible not to get attached to them. The most memorable was a pt in her twenties. I cried like a baby...

Hello Carz, I worked dialysis for 7 yrs. Started out as a new grad. You will get extensive training, but it takes awhile to get comfortable with dialysis. Make sure you have helpful and qualified staff to train you. The machine can be very intimid...

I worked in a womens maximum security facility. We had an inmate that had a sex change from male to female. "She" had the surg several yrs prior to incarceration. She was in general population and if I hadn't been told by staff, I would have never...

Hi Jolly, I was in dailysis for 7 yrs in both acute and chronic settings. I also was told it was a critical care specialty. Critical care experience is very desirable in the acute setting, as the majority of patients are unstable or in ICU. As far...

Hi there! I haven't been doing peds homecare very long, just a few months, but I love it. I love the patients and the time I get to spend with them. It almost seems to good to be true. This is definitely where I plan to be a for a while. So far I...